Recently, the topic #Reading for half an hour a day to extend life by 2 years has been on the hot search. This hot spot originated from a 12-year follow-up survey study at Yale University in the United States.
Studies have confirmed that people who love to read live longer. The report results showed that compared with those who never read, 3.5 hours a week (that is, half an hour a day) increased their average life expectancy by nearly two years (23 months); those who read more than 3.5 hours a week had a 23% lower risk of early death.
The German writer Hesse once said: "No book in the world can bring you good luck, but they can make you quietly become yourself!" "The more books you read, the higher your child will be able to stand taller and see farther. What exactly can reading bring to children? How can parents help their children develop good reading habits?
01 Reading can cultivate children's imagination
Imagination is the core of innovation and creation, and various imaginations expand our understanding and cognition of life. "A thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets", and the "Grand View Garden" that belongs to you is a unique gift given by reading.
02 Reading can cultivate children's thinking ability
Our lives are always faced with countless questions: How do people live? What is romance? What is love? How to judge beauty and ugliness... And these questions can always be answered in reading. Reading makes more people see different worlds colliding in your heart, and behind the excitement of those thoughts, it is the value and power of thinking.
03 Reading can cultivate children's concentration
When reading a book, people will fully enter the world of the book. There is no small space for outside pop-up window interference, and there is a complex system architecture that is different from "ten minutes to see the world".
Cultivating children's reading habits and reading ability requires a long-term process, and the role of parents in this process is very important. So what should be done? The following 6 suggestions to put away!
The reading atmosphere of the family and the example of the parents
In a home, if there is no book, no person who loves books, then this child, it is difficult to fall in love with reading. If you are only interested in TV dramas or mobile phones, if you are very impetuous, take busy as an excuse, and refuse to calm down and seriously read some books, children can not develop the habit of loving reading, and if parents love to read, the family will inevitably have a good reading atmosphere, which is the best way to guide children to fall in love with reading.
It is best to have a fixed reading time of half an hour to an hour every day, and read with your child.
Hold a little book club
Let the child read with the little friends, and invite the child's friends to come to the house to hold a small reading party.
Let several children read a book together, discuss the characters in the book together, and then they will play roles, children have the desire to express themselves, in order to express their own views, they will read well, remember some things, and then express them, such reading will be very beneficial to the growth of children.
Don't talk about what is useful, read it happily first
Books have a good effect on the cultivation of children's abilities and behavioral habits. But this is not their main function, and it cannot be put before the horse. Reading should first abandon the utilitarian perspective, do not always talk about the use of reading, first read happily is important.
Choose a book for your child, just look at whether the content of the book is interesting, whether it is in line with the child's natural development, and whether it is safe and readable. Only when children really enjoy reading and feel happy in it can reading become a habit that has been adhered to for a long time.
Prepare enough books for your child and take it to the library often
If we have enough books, we can guide children, astronomical geography, literature and history, novel essays, comic book picture books, should be eclectic, so as to avoid children reading "picky eaters".
If you don't have enough conditions to give your child enough books, then remember to go to the library often, get a card, and have a library of books. But the number of books does not mean that they are all piled up in front of the child at one time, and when reading to the child, it should still be gradual, and it is enough to give 2-5 books at a time. Sometimes children don't know how to choose, and it's easy to get distracted.
Respect your child's nature and choices
Every child's reading ability and comprehension level is different, we can not be one-size-fits-all, we must respect the nature of children. For example, independent reading, there can be a transition time, you can change the simple parent reading to parent-child reading together, and then encourage the child to read it again.
Guide your child to read some books that he is more interested in, independent reading may really begin one day, and before that, you should help him improve his reading ability. There is also the problem of choosing books, some mothers say that the books selected by their children feel bad, and the books they choose, the children do not like. So what to do?
Then communicate more together, go to the library together, and help children increase their awareness of books. Because our cognition is limited, before we recognize something, it is basically a blackening in front of our eyes. In such communication, it can not only help children express themselves, but also allow children to gradually open up their cognitive world.
Try to expose older children to classic readings
Now many of us feel that the child's comprehension ability is limited, and we cannot read esoteric books to the child, but for the child above the third grade of primary school, we can start to read him some classic literary works.
Try to read the original book to the child without deletion, some mothers will say that the child can't read, don't understand then slow down, don't worry. Of course, do not underestimate the child's reading ability and self-learning ability, these classic books will make the child's reading ability continue to sublimate and enter a new level.
Reading, there is no shortcut, just rely on one book to read. The cultivation of reading ability is a slow process, you can't let your child read a few books to have strong reading ability, so this road needs persistence and care!
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Editor/Cui Ning Wentu/China Education News, @People's Daily Weibo
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